sowego wrote:

It truely can be tricky to park an RV in a private driveway, on the street in front of a property or even beside the house in some neighborhoods. And that holds true for many cities all over the country. Sometimes they are old laws that need to be updated, just grumpy neighbors, and egads those dreaded HOA's! I'd find out for sure if it's a neigborhood HOH, a city ordinance, or a grumpy neigbor. With the number of all types of RV's in this country I think it's about time some of those laws be altered.

I do believe in many cases an HOA is a great thing but in some cases they go over the top with some restricts that are totally unreasonable. In one neighborhood I heard about they didn't even want a garage door left open for more than long enough to drive a vehicle in or out of it! Our HOA was a great thing and helped keep the community watch program active.

The maddening thing is a buyer does not always know all the restrictions/ordinances before purchases a property even though they are supposed to be informed. I guess RV owners have to be especially alert to check all these things out. However if one has lived in a city for many years then bought an RV...who has really gone out and thought all that through.

In the neighborhood we have moved from all RVs had to be parked on a pad in the backyard out of sight from the street, however if such a thing is so unsightly what about the neighbors beside and behind them, especiallly in an area where wooden privacy fences are also against the local HOH rules. Luckily our neighbors never complained about our rig parked on gravel beside the house hidden by trees and huge pampas grass.

By all means check out who filed the complaint. I agree I bet many of your neighbors should have also been cited. I could be it's time to petition the city council or HOA to see what can be done.

We all know what this is all about. For some reason people are worried someone will park some old wreck of some type of RV in the driveway and let it rot. In many cases these days the RV is worth more than the house! Do ya think a million dollar bus parked in the driveway looks tacky! Someone mentioned to me when this subject came up before that it could be a case of "neighbor envy"!


Good luck. I hope you find a peaceful solution to your problem. If you can't --- hey -- I'd move!

chockwald wrote:


The local PD will more than likely NOT give you the name and address of the person who complained.

rmmpe wrote:

Hey, here's some fun, if you want to use your imagination;
1. Call your local stone quarry and have 20 yards of pea gravel delivered to the driveway of the neighbor's house when he's out. When he comes home and sees it, he'll call them to come pick it up. They'll refuse because it cost more to shovel it back into the truck than it's worth. But he'll keep getting billed for it. Who knows? They might even report him to a credit company.
2. Subscribe the guy to all the plain brown wrapper smut magazines you can find (especially the Gaylord's). If he's married it'll get his wife to wondering. Make sure you do it using the Bill-me-later plans.
3. If you know his phone number, call as many home improvement businesses as you can find and ask for a quote and follow-up phone call for a complete house remodel.
4. Do the same for Landscapers.
5. Return all those credit card offers you get in the mail making sure you write-in his name and address. That'll help his credit rating too.

southpark wrote:

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In many areas there are an astounding number of local codes and regs that touch on areas of your property use you could never imagine. I spent quite a bit of time reviewing my local laws recently and concluded (and yes, I am a licensed attorney so I'm fairly certain I wasn't imagining anything) that 90%+ of my neighbours are in violation of something or other. I'm not a conspiracy theorist by nature, but it really does seem like most of these laws are not passed because they really expect them to help the community or be enforced, rather, they are there to give the community legal leverage against you when they have some sort of conflict with you.

rmmpe wrote:

fuzzbutt wrote:
PS, does anyone have any suggestions of things I can do to my yard or house that would be within code, but just look horrendous from across the street? It can't be permanant though. I would love to make him resent the fact he went to the borough instead of coming to me and asking nicely. All in fun.....of course!

Hey, here's some fun, if you want to use your imagination;
1. Call your local stone quarry and have 20 yards of pea gravel delivered to the driveway of the neighbor's house when he's out. When he comes home and sees it, he'll call them to come pick it up. They'll refuse because it cost more to shovel it back into the truck than it's worth. But he'll keep getting billed for it. Who knows? They might even report him to a credit company.
2. Subscribe the guy to all the plain brown wrapper smut magazines you can find (especially the Gayloids). If he's married it'll get his wife to wondering. Make sure you do it using the Bill-me-later plans.
3. If you know his phone number, call as many home improvement businesses as you can find and ask for a quote and follow-up phone call for a complete house remodel.
4. Do the same for Landscapers.
5. Return all those credit card offers you get in the mail making sure you write-in his name and address. That'll help his credit rating too.

"Get-evens" are myriad.